The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 34

1 N0VF.MHKRI2,l!Kir. Metro Update From a badge to a backpack Hy fiMillK STAKK When Steven Johnson walks by wearing casual clothes and carrying a knapsack, folks in the neighlorhod whisper that the well-known Boston jM)lice ofTicer must be working undercover. But Johnson, 4(i, dresses like a student these days because he is one. A 13-year veteran of the force and a familiar face to resident of Jamaica Plain, Johnson hung up hia uniform in Septenilier for a year of study at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. "It's hard work," said John son, who wants to earn his teach y' 'I think it's unportant to have men of color in the 1 1.

i i republic SChOOlS. tions of the city. STEVEN JOHNSON BuhUm p(Aice officer i' GETTING HIS mY-Lindsey Yost hugs Phyllis Budgell yesterday atAllston ceremonies renaming Gaff my Street ojfComynmivealthAyenue as Harry Agganis Way. Agganis, a Lynn native, was a star football and baseball player at Boston University ivho went on to play for the Red Sox. He died in 1955 of a pulmonary embolism.

men of color in the public schools," said Johnson, who is black. A Roxbury native who dropped out of school at 15, Johnson received his GEI) later in life and continued his studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. While he plans to return to uniform after his leave, he hope3 one day to teach. Johnson now serves as a student teacher two days a week at Jamaica Plain's Boston English High School, where many of the students know him from his years of work in precinct E-5. Some of the juniors and seniors look twice when they see Johnson at the head of the class.

"They ask: 'Can you do that? Can you just stop being a cop and then be a said Johnson. What does Johnson tell them? "You can do whatever you want to. That is, if you're willing to work." r.IIJ,-,ll,M,l,l.lll m-nr itf hi ii-Umi mJUJ.mm.,MmmtM-Mum,x. imsmixm .1. iluli tJ Prison waste raises hacldes in Norfoli School forms revised a 2d time By Joe Ryan GLOBE CORRESPONDENT The Boston schools have revised permission slips that parents must sign and have banned recreational swimming on school trips as a result of the death of a student on a school field trip in June.

The new procedures follow the drowning of 13-year-old Kermit Buon, a student at the Phillis Wheatley Middle School, during a field trip to Lake Cochituate in Natick on June 19. Buon's mother said the permission slip she signed before the field trip made no mention of swimming. Her daughter did not know how to swim. The revised forms include explicit information on the kind of trip a child's class will be taking. In addition, recreational swimming will not be part of any field trip, although instructional swimming may be allowed with par ents permission.

The new forms are the second by at least four months a key deadline it agreed to with Attorney General Scott Harshbarger in May to start repairing or replacing the pipe. Residents, local officials irate Many residents and local officials are irate over the slow progress and the stopgap solutions. In late September a group of homeowners filed a notice of intent to sue the department under several state and federal environmental laws. "If it was someone's home or business spewing sewage like this, the state would shut them down in a minute," said Marie Waitkevich, one of those now forced to use gallon jugs of water for all her cooking, bathing and drinking. "But it's the state, so they get away with it.

The whole thing just stinks." Under the Harshbarger agreement, the department agreed to hire a consultant to use a miniature waterproof video camera to photograph the interior of the pipe and report by Sept. 7 on what repairs were necessary and how they would be made. But Correction Department officials said the problem was more complex than expected, and they now promise the report will be delivered Dec. 5. Anthony Carnevale, the department spokesman, said the agency is trying its best to resolve the crisis.

"The light is at the end of the tunnel," Carnevale said. "Yes, there were some delays. They could not be avoided. You're dealing with state regulations and processes that cannot be avoided." One contributing factor appears to be vandalism by prisoners, who have been known to flush bedsheets, trash and other items down their toi- leaking sewage, covered the lake at times this summer. Some town officials are urging the Correction Department to shut the system entirely and build pipes to direct the prison sewage into the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority network in Walpole.

It would be conveyed miles away to Deer Island for treatment and disposal in Massachusetts Bay. Residents also want the state to pay for hooking them up to town water. Otherwise, "It's $20,000 for me to get clean water to my faucet for something that's not our fault," said Patricia Allen, another Campbell Street homeowner with a ruined well. "Who's behind the wall, anyway?" To Waitkevich, the worst irony is that if prisoners were being denied clean drinking water or subjected to the inconveniences of using bottled water, "they'd be saying their rights are being violated and they'd sue in a minute. But what about us? Our rights are being violated.

Who's behind the wall, anyway?" Carnevale said his agency will "continue moving forward" with efforts to fix the sewer, regardless of the threatened lawsuit "We consider that to be a separate issue" that will not slow repair efforts, he said. Despite fairly extensive cooperation between the Correction Department and Norfolk officials, some seem resigned to several more months of inconclusive bickering. The chairwoman of the Norfolk selectmen, Yaffa Dratman, said, "I sympathize with them. It's a terrible thing to have to deal with. Government moves at glacial speed.

That's the way government is." ing certificate. "I'm sitting here knee-deep in it right now. This work is harder than, well, work." Two years ago, the Globe did a feature story on Johnson as an officer who did old-fiishioned foot rtittrnlu in nna nf tVin tnmrVi Johnson, a single father whose two daughters are in elementary school, took an unpaid leave of absence from the force. "I think it's important to have The revised forms include explicit information on the kind of trip a child's class will be taking. versity student killed in a bicycle accident near Kenmore Square within the past year.

Yesterday, BU officials and merchants near the area complained about the intersections there, saying that confusing traffic signals make the area dangerous for pedestrians. Last December, Mark C. Pfeil, 19, a sophomore, was killed when a drunk driver rammed the back of his bicycle into a parked car. "We have long had a concern about traffic on Commonwealth said Kevin Carleton, a spokesman for Boston University. "Kenmore offers an especially difficult challenge because of the amount of traffic in the square." Anastos said that the lights for Commonwealth Avenue and for Beacon Street turn green si-: multaneously, congesting traffic and making it difficult for pedestrians to cross the street "You take your chances crossing the street around here," Anastos said.

"The elderly don't stand a chance." Anastos added that the driver of the Jeep was shaken, and said that other witnesses also tried to aid the bicyclist "Right now we can't point the blame," he said. "We can only try and help the kiffs familv." By Peter J. Howe GLOBE STAFF NORFOLK An apparent law-'. breaker has been running wild for years here, residents say, dumping sewage in a once-beautiful lake and poisoning a growing number of drinking-water wells. But the effort to make him stop and repair his damage has become a bureaucratic donnybrook, because in this case the apparent bad guy is the state Department of Correction.

The protracted controversy, which has angry homeowners talking lawsuits, involves a crumbling clay Correction Department sewer line. The 65-year-old line carries sewage and wastes from four facilities, including the state's maximum-security prison in Walpole and two Norfolk facilities, to a treatment plant on a Charles River tributary. The line has been known to leak for decades. Periodically since March it has been spilling tens of thousands of gallons of sewage through manholes into Highland Lake. Eight wells near the line, located along Campbell Street and Lincoln Road, have been shut this year because of high counts of bacteria usually spread by sewage, the most recent being a deep-drilled artesian 1 well closed in September.

Correction officials have taken several actions since March to control damage, installing equipment to reduce blockages in the line, locking manhole covers to control blowouts, sending inmates to clean up spills, and hiring firms to test homeowners' wells and deliver them bottled water if needed. But the department has missed wmjitiK yuiw i 1 9 Highland WALPOLE i 14 Mile MCl Norfolk Bay State Com Ctr. 7 NORFOLK MCI Cedar Junction it ruiiuvintj wm. ur. -v A.

GLOBE STAFF MAP lets, clogging sewers and causing overflows. Over the summer the department installed grinders to shred large debris before it enters the sewer. But during an overflow last month, Campbell Street residents found banana peels, plastic materials, and other large matter washing up from underground, leading them to wonder about correction officials' diligence in using the grinders. Once a popular park Early in this century Highland Lake was a popular park. The railroad that owned it ran special summer trains for Boston residents to enjoy picnics and canoeing there.

But in recent years fishing and swimming have been banned. Thick blankets of algae, apparently fed by uw ilOluiailS attempt this fall to correct shortcomings in permission slips. An earlier revision angered many parents who felt it contained legal language that absolved the School Department and the city of any liability on field trips. The new version does not contain that language, said Deputy Superintendent Arthur Steller. About 100 parents refused to sign the earlier form for trips to pick apples and to attend a children's fair, according to Myrtle David, director of the School Department's early learning center in Dorchester.

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accident He was heading down Brook-line Avenue into the square, making a left onto Commonwealth Avenue, when he collided with the passenger side of the Jeep in front of Pizzeria Uno. The driver of the Jeep has not been charged, and witnesses said it was not his fault, citing the convoluted traffic signals and confusing cross streets. "I feel bad," said Mike Anas-tos, the manager of Pizzeria Uno, who held his white apron to the bleeding man's head in an attempt to save him. "I kept telling the victim he would be all right "It was awful," said Anastos, who was teary-eyed when he learned of Kim's death. "He was really banged up." Kim is the second Poston Uni Police mull charges in infant's beating A 5-month-old Worcester infant remained in critical condition late yesterday as police remained undecided about whether to press charges against either of his parents for the beating he apparently suffered last week.

Adam Woodland was in the intensive care unit at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center being treated for fluid buildup on the brain and for abdominal injuries. A Worcester police detective, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the investigation is continuing into whether either of his parents, Kevin Woodland, 32, or Veronica Higbie, 22, will face charges. After Woodland pleaded guilty to abusing Adam in August, a court order forbade him from being alone with the child, but Woodland apparently was baby-sitting him Monday. "We have reason to believe the child was deliberately injured," DSS spokeswoman Lorraine Carli said Friday. But no suspect was named.

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